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In 2009, a political disagreement about organizing and bargaining strategy, involving the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and its second largest healthcare local, led to a costly and disastrous trusteeship

Social, economic, ecological, cultural collapse is on many people’s minds. With the world tilting. With logic seemingly abandoned. How can one make worthy choices? Indeed, why choose at all? This

On September 15th, fifteen-year-old Mohammad Abdul Zinati was walking home from school in Gaza city with friends and stopped in a shop.  He heard a loud explosion on the street

On October 5, as Donald Trump headed to Nebraska on his 32-day midterm campaign tour, voters there were confronting rising diesel prices and inflation tied in part to the war

In his second term, US President Donald Trump has gone the way of past executive tribunes of the American imperium in seeking land and resources like a kleptomaniacal pincher.  This

On the morning of July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert, a group of physicists waited for the culmination of a project that had consumed them for years. At

There is something almost admirable about the Canadian government’s ability to respond to an American provocation with precisely the right number of carefully selected adjectives. Washington imposes tariffs. Ottawa expresses

Five years after the U.S. withdrew its troops from Afghanistan and the Taliban returned to power, the group is now asking for something that once seemed almost unthinkable: the diplomatic

I’m an animal liberationist and a cinephile. There’s not much I love more than when these two passions intersect. While I’ve read enough Marxist texts to believe culture largely runs

An electoral turnaround is possible, however difficult. But the illusion that the left can govern without a long-term project, without confronting the powerful, and without popular mobilization must be left

To the untrained eye, the 11th Ward along the southernmost border of Minneapolis is a sleepy corner of the city, tucked away from the raucousness in other parts of town.

Argentina holds one of the most contradictory political histories in Latin America. The birthplace of Ernesto “Che” Guevara, with a powerful tradition of labor organizing, militant unions, and popular movements,

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